Gillmor Gang: Pulp Friction

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The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — talk FirePhone and its impact on digital transactions in the material world. For starters, it’s not really a phone as much as an object recognition system that taps directly into the mainline of showteling. Just as mobile has “freed” us from our assigned desks, so too has the notification economy thrown off the shackles of the showroom.

Instead we are granted a digital pass to act on impulse buying at any moment. How this will impact on our jobs as consumers will come later, but for now the race is on for pole position. The Triple Crown of phone, tablet, and TV is being handicapped, with Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon snorting with excitement as they enter the starting gate stalls. And they’re off.

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BioKeith Teare is a Founder and Executive Chairman at Accelerated Digital Ventures Ltd - A UK based global investment company focused on startups at all stages. He was previously founder at the Palo Alto incubator, Archimedes Labs. Archimedes was the original incubator for TechCrunch and since 2011 has invested, accelerated or incubated many Silicon valley startups including Quixey; M.dot (sold to GoDaddy); …

BioKevin Marks is a software engineer. Kevin served as an evangelist for [OpenSocial](http://www.crunchbase.com/product/opensocial) and as a software engineer at [Google](http://www.crunchbase.com/company/google). In June 2009 [he announced](http://epeus.blogspot.com/2009/06/farewell-to-google.html) his resignation.
From September 2003 to January 2007 he was Principal Engineer at [Technorati](http://www.crunchbase.com/company/technorati) …

BioRobert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. He is best known for his popular blog, [Scobleizer](http://scobleizer.com/), which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at [Microsoft](/company/microsoft).
Scoble joined Microsoft in 2003, and although he often promoted Microsoft products like Tablet PCs and Windows Vista, he also frequently criticized …

BioSteve Gillmor is a technology commentator, editor, and producer in the enterprise technology space. He is Head of Technical Media Strategy at salesforce.com and a TechCrunch contributing editor.
Gillmor previously worked with leading musical artists including Paul Butterfield, David Sanborn, and members of The Band after an early career as a record producer and filmmaker with Columbia Records' Firesign …